Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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978-0-8476-9549-2 • Hardback • November 2000 • $162.00 • (£125.00)
978-0-7425-7362-8 • eBook • November 2000 • $153.50 • (£119.00)
Nancy Bermeo is associate professor of political science at Princeton University. Philip Nord is professor of history at Princeton.
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2
Chapter I:Preludes to Failed Democracies
Chapter 3 On Liberalism and the Emergence of Civil Society in Portugal
Chapter 4 The Dream of Civil Society in Tsarist Russia: Law, State, and Religion
Chapter 5 Public Opinion and Associations in Nineteenth-Century Italy
Chapter 6 Liberalism and Civil Society in Italy: From Hegemony to Mediation
Chapter 7 Civil Society and the Middle Classes in Nineteenth-Century Germany
Chapter 8
Chapter II: Preludes to Durable Democracies
Chapter 9 Civil Society, Subscriber Democracies, and Parliamentary Government in Great Britain
Chapter 10 Political Association in Nineteenth-Century France: Legislation and Practice
Chapter 11 Liberalization, Democratization, and the Origins of a Pillarized Civil Society in Nineteenth-Century Belgium and the Netherlands
Chapter 12
Chapter III: The Meaning of the Nineteenth Century Today
Chapter 13 The Role of Society and Non-Civic Associations in the Democratization of Poland, 1945-1996
Chapter 14 The Historical Origins of the East-West Divide: Civil Society, Political Society, and Democracy in Europe
Chapter 15 Civil Society after Democracy: Some Conclusions
This book bringing together the writings of historians and political commentators from Europe and the United States has the merit of reminding us that civil society is not a new idea since it had a big role to play in shaping European democracies in the nineteenth century. This intelligent sampling of the history of European countries also shows us that civil society is not necessarily synonymous with democracy......
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This is a very well constructed set of essays.....
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This high quality collection of articles is the first in English that covers many different European countries and therefore will be of great interest to anyone interested in 19th-century European social and political history.....
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